REV. JOHN BAMPTON, M. A. CANON OF SALISBURY, BY HENRY KETT, M.A. FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. AND C. RIVINGTON, N° 62, ST. PAUL'S M DCC XCII. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND LEWIS BAGOT, LL. D. LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAP H. MY LORD, TH HE fatisfaction, which I feel on being permitted to dedicate the following work to your Lordship, is greatly diminished when I reflect upon its deficiency in every point, which to perfons of your refined judgment muft appear effential to correct and elegant compofition.. My fermons, therefore, can have no stronger claim to your patronage, than that, which arifes from their connexion with thofe facred studies, which amid the most important scenes of active life, you have ever found leisure to cultivate. When you formerly prefided over that eminent Society, which owes fo large a fhare of its present reputation and splendour to your falutary institutions, your discourses from the pulpit were admirably calculated, by the energetick ferioufness of your delivery, and the judicious felection of your topicks, to confirm the Students of Oxford in the genuine principles of Christianity. Your writings have no lefs contributed to the fame ufeful and honourable end; fince the Trustees of Warburton, as well as the Society for the propagation of the Gofpel, have happily afforded you an opportunity of giving similar proofs of your pious labours, If, my Lord, other reafons were wanting, to induce me to make this publick address, I should notwithstanding think myself justified in fheltering thefe earliest fruits of my ecclefiaftical ftudies under your protection. I contemplate in your Lordship's character a ftriking resemblance, both with respect to firmnef's |